Price Reporter - Forest Products

Overview

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets. Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge.

It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets. Fastmarkets  data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge.

It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.

To produce price assessments and market intelligence that are critical to the North American hardwood industry. To cement our standing as the most trusted source of hardwood pricing information for more than 100 years. To support and develop new avenues that further imbed our data and news across the industry.

• Assess hundreds of prices each week using our proprietary MInD database while adhering to our published methodologies and IOSCO principles.
• Provide indispensable market commentary that provides context to the prices reported each week.
• Produce market news and analysis for our Hardwood Market Report weekly publication, HMR Import and HMR Executive monthly publications.
• Cultivate new sources for market data while maintaining our vast network of industry contacts.
• Edit copy and peer review price assessments to ensure compliance with our published methodologies.
• Attend industry conferences and events, represent the business through speaking engagements and industry outreach.

Work within an experienced team of editors to produce HMR’s publications. More broadly collaborate with colleagues in other parts of the Forest Products business, including analysts and economists. Work with marketing and events teams to expand the reach of our price data and market reporting. Reports to hardwood team leader.

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

• Some professional writing experience, preferably in newspapers or other trade journals.
• Ability to be self-motivated in a remote-work environment while also working collaboratively with teams across the organization.
• Strong, concise writing and editing skills; ability to write authoritatively and to the point.
• Comfort with numbers, statistics, and data-driven prose.
• Strong interviewing skills and phone, email etiquette.
• Ability to meet multiple weekly and daily deadlines.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Prior knowledge of hardwood industry a plus

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